Picked up Wolfenstein 2 in the Black Friday sales, looking forward to that one. Also cannot wait for PUBG on Xbox, provided it’s not completely unplayable with bugs and such I’ll be picking that up day 1/2 I’m also holding off on buying SW Battlefront 2 until I see what EA do with the loot boxes, real disappointment for me as I was looking forward to that game a few months ago.

Addicted to Battlefield 1 at the moment anyway and I’ve still got Telltale GOT and Borderlands to play through in the meantime.

(If on a phone you may need to request the desktop version, but to be honest, I'd play it on your computer so you can alt tab away and back to it)

What the heck did I just waste 30 mins of my life on?!

That's a simple and awful game, yet I could not bring myself away from it!

Did you get to the space combat part of it?

Mine ended when I released the hypno-drones and was able to devote all of the planets resources to making paperclips.

Enjoyable for some time killing. I'd have liked some few bits and bobs changed but given it's a free browser game I can't expect amazing production quality. One the whole, I'm really rather impressed with the whole operation.

(If on a phone you may need to request the desktop version, but to be honest, I'd play it on your computer so you can alt tab away and back to it)

What the heck did I just waste 30 mins of my life on?!

That's a simple and awful game, yet I could not bring myself away from it!

Did you get to the space combat part of it?

Mine ended when I released the hypno-drones and was able to devote all of the planets resources to making paperclips.

Enjoyable for some time killing. I'd have liked some few bits and bobs changed but given it's a free browser game I can't expect amazing production quality. One the whole, I'm really rather impressed with the whole operation.

No, that's the end of the first 33% of the game. There's a whole two sections after that.

Mine ended when I released the hypno-drones and was able to devote all of the planets resources to making paperclips.

Enjoyable for some time killing. I'd have liked some few bits and bobs changed but given it's a free browser game I can't expect amazing production quality. One the whole, I'm really rather impressed with the whole operation.

No, that's the end of the first 33% of the game. There's a whole two sections after that.

Well it wouldn't let me do anything after it, so seemed like the end. Gone forever now anyway.

Finished the Game of Thrones Telltale game. Pretty disappointing. I get the impression from playing this that it was early in Telltale's history compared to something liked Walking Dead S3 which I also played very recently. The first WD game and this both somehow don't quite work as well. Not really sure what the difference is but they feel different and less good. Still fun enough. For the fiver I paid, fine. For my own definition of value, this wouldn't have been worth full price. Not by a long shot.Some specific spoilers for the GoT game and the show/books

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It somewhat irks me when you have the never-mentioned on screen characters as stars of the videogames then have them meet a lot of the main characters. Then again, sometimes I like it so kinda fair enough.Scale. I don't really know the scale involved but Ironrath looks like it has about 20 total people. A garrison of 20 men is a huge security issue. Recruiting what looks like 15 former slaves is seen as a win capable of changing the path of this specific war.

Knowing there isn't a S2, I kinda hoped this would feel like a complete story. Sequel hook instead. The annoying thing, Telltale did similar in WD 1,2 and 3 but still managed to make them feel like their own standalone stories were done, at least the part of the story we were at.

I'm doubtful I could have done anything to change my ending that significantly. Now, I admit this could be a totally unfair accusation but they've made a game that feels like you can make the right choices to save the place. For anyone curious, I got Asher killed. I got Mira beheaded. My maw got stabbed. My soon-to-be-wife got dragged off by bad guys. Pretty much everyone dies. I usually like the everyone dies outcome when the protagonists are pretty much in an impossible situation. You don't really change anything but the fine detail in the other Telltale games. But they don't really tend to make me think they will. Anyway, mileage may greatly vary on that issue for others.

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Mine ended when I released the hypno-drones and was able to devote all of the planets resources to making paperclips.

Enjoyable for some time killing. I'd have liked some few bits and bobs changed but given it's a free browser game I can't expect amazing production quality. One the whole, I'm really rather impressed with the whole operation.

No, that's the end of the first 33% of the game. There's a whole two sections after that.

Well it wouldn't let me do anything after it, so seemed like the end. Gone forever now anyway.

I remember thinking the same, but then I did something, it might have been to click the "make paperclip" button again and something happened. Actually, you may have got to the end of the second third. If you harvest 5 octillion paperclips you start the von neuman project and send spaceships to explore the universe and convert the entire universe into paperclips, end up fighting aliens that try to stop you converting the universe into paperclips until you have turned all of them into paperclips as well.

The game is based on the smart AI theory about if you made a machine that had unlimited intelligence whose sole goal was to produce as many paper clips as possible. Such a machine would turn the entire universe into paperclips. It's not as spectacular as SkyNet, but a much more real doomsday AI scenario based on how computers thinking works.

It's also an exploration of exponential growth in mathematics, and if you understand that then the later part of the game becomes really quickly. You have to program the space probes in various fields, one of which was self replication, which providing you can get a exponential growth pattern meant that the speed of universe conversion into paperclips looked like it started slowly, but would just keep gathering speed.

I remember thinking the same, but then I did something, it might have been to click the "make paperclip" button again and something happened.

If I recall I had the make paperclip button and maybe my processor/memory window (but not special projects) left. I clicked everything that was left and nothing seemed to happen. Did seem like an odd stopping point but also seemed like a logical end.

Got stuck into The Turing Test, which was recently free on Xbox Live. Decent game I thought. Puzzles were of a decent standard and the difficulty curve was well handled (I always think it must be a *inaudible* to design puzzle games).

The plot though. I feel like this is a game that is either trying to be smarter than it is or my own interpretation of morality is not what the Devs think it should have been. To me, the whole issue isn't shades of grey but purely black and white.

Couple of issues with the game. The physics are a little off. When platforms drop, anything on them lingers like Wild E. Coyote. IF you move a platform horizontally the same effect makes things falls off frequently. One puzzle relies on the physics in a specific way that seemed like the only way to do the puzzle, but relied on the physics engine doing what I thought it would which was rarely the case. Of course, my solution may not have actually been the intended solution. Also, one instance of bad design (imo) occurs in one of the optional puzzles. The game has trained you to always carry spare energy because you almost always need it. Having this energy makes a force-field over a door activate. A force-field that looks close to how the door looks without the force-field. Put those together these things and you have an impassable barrier that it is very unclear how to fix. Mileage may vary if that's me being stupid or bad design, but I really think that one aspect is flawed.Finally, the audiologs in the game are not subtitled. After an incredibly loud gig a few years ago, my hearing is noticeably worse. I often struggle to hear clearly and it's not unusual for me to just read subtitles when I watch stuff and in games, I nearly always put full subtitles on. Subtitle everything, not just the main plot stuff.

Anyway, if anyone else picked this up free or likes reasonably short puzzle games I'd say give it a bash. Took me 7.5 hours and was pleasant for that time.

I subtitle everything too! Nothing wrong with my hearing (even after many loud gigs myself), just cause I like to make sure I don't miss anything and often dialogue gets lots in the sfx and music in games and films etc.. It's also cause I'm used to being quiet so I don't disturb people.

Most of my friends think I'm weird when they see I have games and Netflix etc subtitled, nice to know it's not just me

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Just played the paperclip game. First on my mobile as I didn't have access to a pc. It was pretty boring and kinda ran out of projects, but then I read that people who downloaded it on their phones had preferred the browser version much more.

So I borrowed my nieces laptop in order to change the universe into paper clips. It was pretty nice and I really enjoyed how much depth this deceiving game had. Took about 5-6 hours lol.

Bit disappointing I didn't kill aliens along the way and was Killin drifters instead who are pretty much your own probes gone haywayer. And a bit spooky with the music in the third phase. But I did enjoy the space battles and watching my dots destroy the drifters.

In the end I rejected the drifters offer and killed everything and then dissassembled my AI to produce just a few more clips......

OMG Mass effect Andromeda online is lagging and rubberbanding me so much. I wanted to try out a new class, the human soldier. Its not normally my play style but I leveled up the banguards and an adept so wanted to try something new.

Game is totoally ruined for me, the last match I couldn't even fire my gun. What sort of daft problem is that and died several times because of the the lag making it unplayable. Been trying to play all week, but when you struggle to get an hour or two of gameplay in anyway, spending it all suffering is terrible. I'm uninstalling it right away!

Just about finished Horizon Zero Dawn. I've done all missions and most side missions from both the game and the DLC, showing around 96% completed for the main game and 77% for the DLC.

For the DLC I've not did the new Hunting Grounds yet which will be a big part of it. For the main game I have no idea what I'm still actually missing, guess there are some tutorials or something that I didn't bother with initially. First game I've loved enough to attempt to 100%, despite all missions being completed.

MGSV was close until it got to the stupid 're-do' missions after the half way point.

Yeah I like it too, should be great when it runs more smoothly. Tried fortnite which runs better but don't enjoy the resources and base building part of it. Been a while since I've played a large scale FFA one death only game so having to adjust my playstyle a bit

Obviously, I'm a motorsport guy (shocking, I know) so the content is good. I also happen to like games that are somewhat passive to play sometimes (menu games as I call them). I quite enjoy it. I got the free DLC to start my own team so did that. After about 5 seasons I made it up to the next level (it's like a football manager game in so much as you can be promoted and relegated). At the end of that season, I got relegated back to the first tier. Any time I get moved up, I'm pretty weak compared to the field and can't do enough to keep my point total up. I'm claerly mismanaging fuel as in races with refuelling I do much, much worse than those with no refuelling.

It's a fun enough game but it lacks quite a lot of what I was looking for. It's a bit too simple, despite having quite a lot of options.

Edit: Played some Gears of War with my buddy couch co-op earlier. Great game at the time, and still holds up really well. Good story (the best of the Gears 1-3 trilogy), good mechanics (though I like some of the GoW2 additions) but most of all, I love couch co-op. I know we've discussed it before and quite a few of you agreed it's a good feature and sad to lose.